Senior Staff Engineer, Java Developer

About the role

• Technical Lead with excellent communication skills
• Should be able to effectively communicate with client stakeholders and offshore team
• Hands on experience in developing software which runs on the JVM, with a strong preference for Java
• Should be able to do coding/development work
• Responsible for delivery of tasks assigned to offshore team
• In-depth knowledge of how to design and optimize access of relational databases such as Aurora, Oracle.
• Development of software which runs on and integrates in the Cloud with a preference for AWS technologies such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, and RDS
• Creation of containerized solutions which can be run with Docker.
• Development of software which interacts with messaging systems such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and Kafka
• Creation of APIs using RESTful techniques.
• Experience in creating new infrastructure with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Use of distributed version control software such as Git
• Create software which fully considers all aspects of performance, security, reliability, and monitoring in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Document and communicate the design of the systems you produce so that other team members can rapidly understand the trade-offs and functioning of the system.
• Be an active participant in an Agile Scrum team which uses ceremonies such as daily standup, sprint planning, and retrospectives to conduct development.
• Coordinate with product management to estimate, refine, and plan the product roadmap for upcoming features and functionality.
• Use test driven development techniques which allow the team to be assured the software being developed is correct.
• Instrument and monitor software produced to ensure it is performing to expectations. Plan and implement changes to the software when it falls outside of performance expectations.
• Integrate our software with internal and external systems which increase the business value to our customers.
• Create RESTful APIs for frontend teams and external partners to access data and perform operations on the system.
• Keep up-to-date status of items in our issue tracking software.
• Participate in and help execute team peer design and code reviews.
• Mentor junior team members in debugging, testing strategies, design and achieving on-time delivery.